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Category Archive: Macs

Last Week on My Mac: No secret

What do we want the week after the US Presidential Election? Let’s have an Apple Event!

November 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 72

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Mementos and […]

November 7, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Extended attributes as a vulnerability

Thirty years ago, many Macs were hit by the Wdef virus, which exploited a vulnerability which remains today: it travelled in an extended attribute. Should we be worried now?

November 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

News for those who follow this blog by email

At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]

November 6, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Finder Comments: worth avoiding

So convenient to use – edit them in the Comments: section of Finder’s Get Info dialog. But as reliable as loose scraps of paper, and as easily lost.

November 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update

Apple has just released macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Supplemental Update, which weighs in at around 1.2 GB and includes […]

November 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

LockRattler version 4.27 supports manual installation of updates too

Now offers you the choice of automatically downloading and installing pending updates, or just downloading them for manual installation.

November 5, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has revealed macOS version numbering following Big Sur

Which is the next ‘major’ release of macOS after Big Sur, then? Will it return to the numbering system before Mac OS X with 12.0, or 11.1?

November 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

Guarding against buggy security updates: a new version of SilentKnight

Why you should reconsider whether you let your Mac automatically download and install ‘silent’ updates, and what you can do instead.

November 4, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

SystHist now works fully with Catalina and Big Sur

New version can display contents of all system updates for Catalina and Big Sur’s boot volume group, at last.

November 3, 2020 Macs, Technology, Updates

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